Y6 JOY MATHEMATICS


Homework and Reminder
Homework and reminder from 28 August 2012 to 19 December 2012


2013/6/17
1. Finish Ch 22 (activities 1 and 2) write answers in your Maths Journal
2. Do half of Ex 22A.1, 22A.2, 22B.1 and 22B.2
3. Start thinking about a piece of art work by using your knowledge of transformations.

2013/6/13
Return assessment 10 and SAW with your parent's signature next Monday.
Bring in textbook H&H MYP1, we will work on Ch 22 (transformation).

2013/6/6
Please note that the assessment 12 is canceled.
Please make sure you bring in your Maths binder on Monday and we will still do the reflections in class (even though it is not a formal assessment, it might affect the final grade of criteria D).
Make sure you have your e-portfolio ready and we will role play the SLC in class next week.

2013/5/31
1. Do all revision exercise's corrections (all solutions have been uploaded to the assessment wiki already)
3. Organize you Binder, bring back on 10 June and we will write the reflection on 11 June (which is your last Mathematics assessment of this year)
4. Work hard for the coming summative assessment (3 June 2:00-3:30pm)

2013/5/29
Finish revision3_3 and Longman 6B test 2 (check answer on Friday)

2013/5/28
Finish Longman 6A test 2 (for those who did half in lesson)
Finish Longman 6A test 2 - odd number only (for those who didn't start in lesson)

2013/5/24
1. Finish all Mathletics set task by Monday (27/5) 9:00pm

2013/5/21
1. Finish the Review Set 24A (if you haven't done so in class)
2. Revise H&H Ch 12, 19 and 24 for this Friday's assessment.
*You are encouraged to do some more Mathletics tasks (especially your weak topics).

2013/5/20
1. Check the assessment wiki, download the practice assessment_solution.
Do it in the Maths Journal and check answer before Tuesday. It helps you to prepare for tomorrow's assessment.

2013/5/16
1. Check the assessment wiki, download the practice assessment (NEW). Do it in the Maths Journal before Tuesday. It helps you to prepare for the coming assessment.
2. Finish yesterday's incomplete classwork (also finish question 2)
download the file (it provide you with the name of the 12 nets I've given, but they might not in the same order as given in class)

2013/5/15
1. Make sure you have finished stage 1- 4 and bring the whole project of "knowing my own house" back on Monday.
We will do the reflection and peer comment on Monday.
2. Make sure you have finished all corrections in the Maths Journal.
*Check Assessment wiki and revise for next weeks assessment (20 May and 24 May)

2013/5/14
1. Finish stage 4 (calculations of volume) check Tomorrow.
2. Maths Journal (do corrections)
*Check Assessment wiki and revise for assessment 10 (21 May and 24 May)

2013/5/13
1. Finish stage 3 (calculations of perimeter and area of each room) check Tomorrow.

2013/5/10
1. Finish your incomplete classwork: (in single-lined paper)
H&H MYP1 Chapter 19
19E.1 (1a, 1b, 2a, 2f)
19E.2 (1d, 1e, 3a, 4f, 5b)
19F (2b, 2d, 2e, 3a, 4b, 6)
19G (7, 9, 10)
2. Finish stage 1 and stage 2 (including the A3 floor plan drawing), check on Monday.

2013/5/9
1. Follow the instructions, examples and checklists to fix and finish your stage 1 and stage 2 (calculations) for "knowing your own house" task.
2. Do Mathletics task for volume and capacity.

2013/5/8
1. I've sent out email to all students on Tuesday and said that we will have a Maths retest tomorrow on "Percentage and Data" but I said about criteria B and D, so in fact I meant "Time and Speed".
However, I don't mind if you would like to try either of those re-test (I will prepared 2 sets of paper). You can come to room 915 tomorrow at 1:05pm and take the re-test.
2. Check the detailed instructions and examples for the "Knowing my house" project, fixed your stage 1 and finish the calculations for stage 2 (as shown in example). A3 Graph paper will be given to students tomorrow when you show you have completed the above.


2013/5/6
1. Make sure you have all necessary dimensions for your own house, for each room and also the total length and width, so that stage 1 floor plan is complete.
2. Start working on your stage 2: find an appropriate scale for your A3 floor plan. Then calculate the map's dimensions for each room, as well as the total length and width with the whole house.
3. Hand in Maths Jorunal for (criteria B practice) tomorrow.
4. Mathletics tasks (due tomorrow 9:00pm)

2013/5/3
1. Finish your unfinished classwork (Dissection deduction for areas of rectangle and triangles) and the extension work (practice for the coming assessment: criteria B) - due next Maths lesson
2. Measure your own house's dimensions, draw a rough floor plan (without furniture) with the dimensions clearly shown.
(do on a single-lined paper, bring in for your next Maths lesson)
3. Mathletics tasks (due next Tuesday)

2013/5/2
1. Math journal:
Finish corrections for Review Set 12A and 12B with detail steps and proper units and Finish Review set 19A (1-5) or as many as you can. (hand in on Friday)
2. Mathletics tasks (due next Tuesday)

2013/4/29
We are starting a new chapter on areas and volumes.
Do related Mathletics task if you still not confident about Ch 12 (unit and measurement)
No official hw for tonight.
However, if your e-portfolio is not up-to-date, spend time to fix it.

2013/4/17
Finish the worksheet (measurement message)

2013/4/16
1. Finish the set classwork if you haven't done so in class:
Ex 12D (4a, b, c); Ex 12E (1a i, iii; 1b ii, iv; 2a i, iii; 2b ii, iv; 4a, b, c, d; 7; and 10)

2013/4/12
1. Finish all Mathletics tasks before 9:00pm on Monday (15 April).
2. Do corrections and ask parent to sign the assessment paper 9 (Time and Speed). Return on Tuesday.

2013/4/10
Group A and B students:
1. Finish the Mathletics task "TEST"
2. Do corrections and finish all questions of H&H Review Set 12A (shows steps in your Maths journal).
Group C students:
1. Finish the Mathletics task "Are you Ready"

2013/4/09
1. Write down at least 1 real-life examples for different units:
Length: mm, cm, m, km
Mass: mg, g, kg, tonne
2. Research more about the SI and imperial units.
(Type your answers and information for both 1, and 2 as a word document and save the file name as "real-life_units of measurement_6J??" (where ?? is your number in two digits).

2013/3/26
1. We've just finish our unit on time and speed and have the assessment today.
It is a good time to reflect on and check your e-portfolio (at least 3 work examples and reflections), will be checked and shown to the class tomorrow.

2013/3/20
1. Download the revision exercise for assessment 9, from the assessment wiki, finish it as homework and we will discuss the answer next Monday.
2. Finish the Mathletics set tasks as revision for the coming assessment (Due Monday 9:00pm)
3. Sign and return your assessment 7 and 8 by Friday.

2013/3/19
Download the assessment notification for your coming assessment 26 March (next Tuesday)
Make sure you have finished all the work set for time and speed and bring in all worksheet to class.

2013/3/15
1. Research and answer your group inquiry questions (every body should contribute).
Bring your information and put them into presentation on Monday.
Present to the whole class on Tuesday.

2013/3/13 (Amended at 8:40pm)
1. Change in PE uniform before come to homeroom, bring in stop watch (if you have) for measuring speed Friday (15 March).
2. Choose 1 topic about time and speed and write down at least 2-3 questions you are personally interested to inquiry into (done in class already).
3. Finish the travel graph worksheet (questions 1-4), answer will be checked on Friday.

2013/3/11
1. Ex15E (#3), Ex15F (#1-5, a and c of each question only), Ex15G (1-4, half of each question only).
Show workings, units and sentences in your Maths Journal.
2. Make sure your organize your binder and bring it back on Wednesday.

2013/3/8
1. Finish worksheet 75 (copy the time-table and show clear working in your Maths Journal)
2. Make sure your organize your binder and bring it back on Monday. (Checked on Wednesday onwards)

2013/3/7
1. World Maths Day will end at 6:00pm tonight, try your best to finish 50 round (@level 10 round) before 6:00pm this evening.

2013/3/6
1. Finish your incomplete classwork:15D (selected questions only)
2. Worksheet (finish the 24 hours problem, 6 questions only)
2. Do about 15 rounds of World Maths Day tonight.
www.worldeducationgames.com

Reminder: Bring in H&H MYP1 textbook for the coming 3 weeks (I prefer you use hard copy in class and keep the book at school) you can use your soft copy (CD) at home.
2. Do about 15 rounds of World Maths Day tonight.
www.worldeducationgames.com

2013/3/5
1. Finish your incomplete classwork:
15A, 15B, 15C (selected questions only)
Reminder: Bring in H&H MYP1 textbook for the coming 3 weeks (I prefer you use hard copy in class and keep the book at school) you can use your soft copy (CD) at home.
2. Do about 15 rounds of World Maths Day tonight.
www.worldeducationgames.com

2013/3/4
1. Bring in H&H MYP1 textbook for the coming 3 weeks (I prefer you use hard copy in class and keep the book at school) you can use your soft copy (CD) at home.
2. World Maths Day will start at 6:00pm tomorrow (5/3) 6:00pm till Thursday 6:00pm (you can do as many round as you can, but only the first 50 rounds will count for the competition)
3. Assessment 8 (Maths binder) reminder is uploaded to the assessment wiki (check on 10 Dec).

2013/3/1
1. log in and practices the world education games (literacy, science and Maths)
http://www.worldeducationgames.com/
2. finish the set Mathletics task (due next Tuesday)

2013/2/28
Make sure you are well prepared and bring necessary stationery for your assessment tomorrow, including:
color pencils, pencils, eraser, ruler, pens...
You are not allowed to communicate in any way or borrow anything throughout the assessment process.

2013/2/27
1. Finish all the review exercise for assessment 7 (download from assessment wiki) and show clear workings in your Maths Journal
Make sure on top of stationery you normally use for Maths assessment, you also bring color pencils (red, blue, green, yellow etc) for Friday's assessment.

2013/2/26
1. Do the review exercise for assessment 7 (16C, 16D and 16E) and
2. Choose the Mathletics tasks (percentage) you are weak at to do

2013/2/22
1. Finish group poster "Height" project. Hand in the group poster and your extension (full report) on Tuesday.
2. Do the revision exercise for assessment 7 (at least 14B, 14E, 14F, 14G and 16B)

2013/2/20
1. Finish the set Mathletics task within the weekend (due on Monday 8:00am)
2. Download and check the notification for assessment 7 (percentage and data)
3. Download and do the revision exercise for assessment 7 (do 1 exercise a day so that you can finish all before the next assessment)

2013/2/19
1. Finish finding range, mean, mode and median for the data assigned to you today (in your math journal) and use excel/number to find the same thing and check your own answer.
2. Finish your full report for "during what year will students grow most?"
hand in the worksheet, broken line graph and your full printed report (on Friday)

2013/2/18
1. You will be given 1 more lesson to finish your report for the measurement project (print and hand in the full detailed report on Friday, including at least 1 broken line graph drawn by hand)
2. Finish all Mathletics task (Due tomorrow 9:00pm)

2013/2/6
1. Double check if you have finished the whole Statistics booklet (front cover to p. 22) and all corrections.
2. Finish today's classwork in your Maths Journal (choose one set of data from the statistic booklet, form a frequency table, add a column for % and degree, draw three different types of chart or graph (Pie chart, Bar chart and Broken line graph), analysis which chart will be best used for the data you've chosen.)
3. Check and do Mathletics task twice a week, all tasks are due 19 Feb, (Tue 9:00pm)
*Account for World Maths day is the same as your Mathletics,
Start practice for World Maths day within the break, use the Mathletics log in and the following address.
www.worldeducationgames.com

2013/2/4
1. Finish Statistics booklet (p.18-20)
Remember to bring your protractor and compasses to draw pie chart tomorrow.

2013/2/1
1. Finish Statistics booklet (p.15-17)

2013/1/30
1. Finish the report for "Which is the most popular letter in English" (Due on Friday)
2. Measure your own height (correct to nearest 0.1cm)
3. Mathletics tasks have been set and is due on Thursday 9:00pm (do 2-3 tasks every day)

2013/1/29
1. Finish the report for "Which is the most popular letter in English" (Due on Friday)
2. Finish the classwork: Data Handling booklet (up to p.14)
3. Mathletics tasks have been set and is due on Thursday 9:00pm (do 2-3 tasks every day)

2013/1/28
1. Finish the report for "Which is the most popular letter in English"
2. Mathletics tasks have been set and is due on Thursday 9:00pm (do 2-3 tasks every day)
2013/1/25
1. Finish the Data Handling booklet (up to p.6)
2. Start thinking about your report for the activity "Which is the most popular letter in English?"
(you will be given 1 lesson to do this on Monday)
2013/1/24
1. Use the most updated data of 6 Joy to finish your Bar graph (if you can't see the screenshot done by Lauren).
Don't forget to bring the Data Handling booklet.

2013/1/23
1. Finish the Data Handling booklet (p.3/ Longman Drawing and Coloring: p.1)
2. Draw Bar graph (Due on Friday)
3. Think about the conclusion and reporting your activity for "Which is the most favorite letter in English", we will discuss it on Friday.


2013/1/22
1. Mathematics tasks (Due tonight 9:00pm)
2. H&H 17A (Due tomorrow)
3. Draw Bar graph (Due on Friday)
2013/1/21
1. Guess "which is the most popular letter in English", write down your guess in your Maths journal first.
2. Count around 10 - 20 rows / ~500-1000 characters from your chosen book and finish the frequency table in your Maths journal
3. Click or copy the following link to enter your data (find your class and your name first)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqYankYJaJ86dEk0dmQ3bmlTWFBVc2ZoZVhCMnRDT1E&authkey=CIXXoYgM
We will discuss the data tomorrow.

2013/1/16
1. Finish the Mathletics task on "percentage error"
2. Finish all pie chart worksheet if you haven't finish in class today.
3. More Mathletics task will be set and due next Tuesday (try to do 2 tasks everyday).

2013/1/15
1. Finish the Mathletics task on "percentage error"
2. Finish all discount worksheet if you haven't done so in class (91, 92, 93, 94) show steps - horizontal form only

2013/1/14
1. Finish Ch 16E (half of each questions) in your Maths journal (show steps)
2. I haven't set new Mathletics last Saturday because a lot of students didn't finish the tasks I set earlier, they must finish the task by Tuesday 9:00pm. Otherwise, 1 no homework done record for them.
Hei Kiu, Kristen, Jacky, Kaiser, Dathan, Tanya, Theodre, Candace, Janet and Robinson.

2013/1/11
1. Finish Ch 16D (half of each questions) in your Maths journal (show steps)
2. New Mathletics task will be set tomorrow and due next Tuesday (15 Jan)

2013/1/9
1. Finish Ch 16C (half of each questions) in your Maths journal (show steps)
2. Finish the worksheet 98, 99, 100 and 101 if you haven't finish in class yesterday or today, keep it in your Journal and bring in tomorrow.

2013/1/8
1. Finish Ch 16A and 16B (half of each questions) in your Maths journal (show steps)
2. Finish the worksheet 100 (p.112) if you haven't finish in class today, keep it in your Journal and bring in tomorrow.

2013/1/7
"Mathletics" task have been reset for those who achieved <85.
2013/1/4
Since the "Mathletics" have reset all your points and tasks yesterday and they have just fixed it today, I have reset tasks for you also. The tasks was due on Friday (11/1). However, you need to check your account on Wednesday (9/1) again because I will reset tasks for those who achieved <85.

2012/12/19
This is the last Maths lesson we have before the end of 2012.
I wish you all a Happy Christmas and a very wonderful year of 2013.
1. Finish H&H MYP1 (Ex 14D, 14E, 14F, and 14G) half of each question only.
2. Make sure you check the Mathletics tasks twice a week and on 3th January, 2013 and make sure you have all tasks done before you start your first lesson of 2013.